Anyone have experience with this amp? It's 300W, appears to be Ampegs 70's answer to the SVT but for guitar, bass or keyboards. One has come up locally with a newer cab for a decent price. 300w seems way overkill for my use but I had been keeping an eye out for a v4 or v2 and this popped up.

You should ask Joe from lone wolf audio about those amps, apparently he is a ampeg historian. Also idk if I miss read it or don't understand what you mean by the answer to the SVT, I thought ampeg made those... why would they need to react to an amp they make?

There's been one kicking around a local shop here for a while. I haven't played it, but boy do I want it. Just to have. I'll probably never see another one. Can't afford it though. It looks awesome and heavy as shit.

V9 was basically an SVT power amp (6550's) with a new preamp section (2x12BH7, 4x12DW7, 12AX7, 6CG7) and reverb. It also had a distortion circuit like some V4's from the same era, and an internal fan to deal with the heat. As mentioned, it was their idea of an SVT for guitar.

I haven't used one but did use an SVT on guitar for a while. Monstrous overkill in the best possible way, massive headroom and bottom end for days.

cantremember wrote:You should ask Joe from lone wolf audio about those amps, apparently he is a ampeg historian. Also idk if I miss read it or don't understand what you mean by the answer to the SVT, I thought ampeg made those... why would they need to react to an amp they make?

Can we please not drag this motherfucker into this forum? This is the one gear stop that i can chill in without having to filter through all of the Joe drama.

cantremember wrote:You should ask Joe from lone wolf audio about those amps, apparently he is a ampeg historian. Also idk if I miss read it or don't understand what you mean by the answer to the SVT, I thought ampeg made those... why would they need to react to an amp they make?

Can we please not drag this motherfucker into this forum? This is the one gear stop that i can chill in without having to filter through all of the Joe drama.

jrfox92 wrote:Yeah, the Joe vs. Bear shit is already all over my Facebook, we don't need that shit on ILD.

Sorry, I just saw these comments. I'm not on Facebook so I don't see any of that shit and I apologize for making a suggestion.